To never use MN again

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Noticed a post on here about a post being posted on "the sun" this made me realise just how unsafe this site actually is and I no longer want to use it

But anyone reading the Sun can read MN Op

Strictly speaking, not entirely true. Many Sun readers would struggle with the more sophisticated vocabulary and subject matter on MN 😁

On a lighter note @EwItsAHooman how'd you know my names Jane n I worked in the post office

Strictly speaking, not entirely true. Many Sun readers would struggle with the more sophisticated vocabulary and subject matter on MN

Also we don’t have enough pictures

So why did they post it on a forum that claims to get 100,000 unique visitors every month

Eh, I think you're a bit out of date. Mumsnet now has 14 million unique visitors every month.

I really can't see what difference it makes if a paper picks it up, I mean, seriously, becayse what , 14 million is a small club?

I reiterate, check out the FAQs www.mumsnet.com/info/faqs

I really don’t know why people get so upset about this. So they post on a public Internet forum and then it gets lifted and posted on the daily mail and then what??? the reality is that people could recognise you from MN anyway and you’d still never know.

Because MN’ers read the daily mail in their droves, how else would they know that threads from here are being posted there? Let’s not pretend that MN’ers are some kind of unique species who don’t read the tabloids, every time someone posts “apologies that it’s the dm,” what they’re actually saying is “I don’t want to admit I read the DM so I’ll pretend that I don’t.”

I’ve never seen a MN thread in the Daily mail,the sun or anywhere else because I don’t read that kind of gutter press.

I have however recognised people from reading their threads on mumsnet.

In truth the only way to prevent people from reading about your life online is to post as if people from RL are already reading it. Because truth is you have no idea that they’re not.

Eh, I think you're a bit out of date. Mumsnet now has 14 million unique visitors every month.

I stand corrected.

It really doesn’t feel like 14 m does it

Feels like a few thousand posting

Yes but there’s a difference between posters and users. Users are people who look at the site, they don’t even need to be members but they still qualify as hits. And the truth is that we have no idea who they are, or what they’re reading.

To that end, I imagine that the daily mail only has a few hundred who post on their comments sections whereas they’ll have however many readers both online and in print.

Oh I know still loads of lurkers

At least half of those 14 million are bots. Another 49% are Mail/Sun readers visiting to read the threads reported on in their rags. The remaining 1% is us idiots who actually sign up and stick around.

Haha yep

Privacy requires a letter, envelope, stamp and royal mail.

Bruegel, I know you're being funny, but I don't think that's true, they get approx 150 million page views every month from thr 14 million unique visitors.

It's a huge site with a massive readership.

Any one posting on here and thinking it's some small private club and that it's some form of issue if it gets in thr daily mail or whatever I think misunderstands the fact they have just posted and put it up for 14 million people to read.

As a poster said, if you think of it like the daily mail comments section, millions of readers, but much less posters, then you're probably on the right track.